Who Is Adam Schiff? The California Rep. Brutally Shutdown Trump's Claim That He's "Done More" Than Any President

ByMonica Busch

Nov 27 2017

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On Sunday night, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff mocked President Donald Trump on Twitter. In response to a tweet in which the President claimed to have accomplished more in his first 10 months in office than any of his predecessors, the representative listed three Trump staffers who been the subjects of various political scandals.

Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon:

Since the first day I took office, all you hear is the phony Democrat excuse for losing the election, Russia, Russia, Russia. Despite this I have the economy booming and have possibly done more than any 10 month President. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Schiff is the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, which has been tasked with investigating whether or not, and to what extent, Russia may have interfered with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The three staffers that Schiff alluded to were former national security advisor Michael Flynn, former campaign manager Paul Manafort, and former campaign advisor George Papadopoulos. In February, Flynn resigned from his position after it came to light that he had misled the White House about conversations he had had with a Russian ambassador. Manafort turned himself over to authorities in October, after being indicted on a slew of charges related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump campaign. Around the same time, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with Kremlin-connected Russians.

Over the course of the past year, Schiff has made somewhat of a name for himself as a vocal Trump critic who is hard on the President and his party when it comes to allegations of Russian electoral interference. The two have repeatedly sparred over Twitter since Trump took office. Earlier in November, Schiff told the AP that "democracy is under threat" because of alleged Russian interference, and additionally because he said he believes Trump has been working to undermine the investigation and its media coverage. Trump has denied allegations that his campaign colluded with Russia.

"The President would have left American students in a foreign jail because their families didn't lavish sufficient praise on him," Schiff responded, also on Twitter. "How can someone in such a big office be so small?"

As for the Russia investigation, it remains ongoing. Trump has repeatedly and consistently denied that the investigation is necessary, describing the probe as both a hoax and a "witch hunt." He has, at times, suggested that investigations look into Hillary Clinton's campaign instead of his own, arguing that his team did not deserve to be under more scrutiny than her own.